carafts

Updated: May 9, 2025

Farewell, you walls, insensible witnesses of my first tears, my first smiles, and my first false steps on the slippery path of life of my first acquaintance with water-gruel and A B C! Thou corner, in which I stood with lessons difficult to be learned; and thou, in which I in vain endeavoured to tame the most thankless of all created things, a fly and a caterpillar! you floors, which have sustained me sporting and quarrelling with my beloved brother and sisters! you papers, which I have torn in my search after imagined treasures; you, the theatre of my battles with carafts and drinking-glasses of my heroic actions in manifold ways, I bid you a long farewell, and go to live in new scenes of action to have new adventures and new fate!"

Fredrika Bremer - The Home : Or, Life in Sweden